Historical Newspaper Archives Lack Full-Text Extraction and Semantic Search
Existing newspaper archive services only support keyword and date searches, returning raw image scans without OCR or context. Researchers cannot perform meaningful full-text or semantic queries across historical newspaper content, requiring manual reading through thousands of low-quality images.
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